English Heritage sites near Great Bentley Parish
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
8 miles from Great Bentley Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
8 miles from Great Bentley Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
MISTLEY TOWERS
9 miles from Great Bentley Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
10 miles from Great Bentley Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
LANDGUARD FORT
14 miles from Great Bentley Parish
Landguard Fort is the site of the last opposed seaborne invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
18 miles from Great Bentley Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
Churches in Great Bentley Parish
Great Bentley: St Mary the Virgin
Pubs in Great Bentley Parish
Fusilier
Aingers Green Road, Aingers Green, CO7 8NH
(01206) 250222
fusiliergreatbentley.com
Great Bentley Cricket Club
Plough Inn
Plough Road, Great Bentley, CO7 8LA
(01206) 255242
ploughgreatbentley.co.uk/